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Security

OWASP Top 10 - A10 Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards

Description If a user is redirected or forwarded to a page defined by an unverified…

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Jan 29, 2014 2 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP

OWASP Top 10 - A9 Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

Description Known software vulnerabilities are available to everyone on the Internet. If an attacker knows…

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Jan 28, 2014 3 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP

OWASP Top 10 - A8 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Description An attacker sends a request to a website you are authenticated on to execute…

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Jan 14, 2014 4 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP

OWASP Top 10 - A7 Missing Function Level Access Control

Description In a web application with different user roles, authentication is not enough. Each request…

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Dec 09, 2013 3 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP

OWASP Top 10 - A6 Sensitive Data Exposure

Description We have seen in the previous articles that an experienced attacker can easily intercept…

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Nov 18, 2013 4 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP

OWASP Top 10 - A5 Security Misconfiguration

Description Nowadays, besides the operating system and the JRE, most of the Java applications are…

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Nov 14, 2013 7 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP

OWASP Top 10 - A4 Insecure Direct Object References

Description The application exposes a direct reference (functional identifier, database key, file path…) to a…

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Nov 04, 2013 2 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP

OWASP Top 10 - A3 Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Description Cross-Site Scripting is a specific consequence of an injection attack. The goal is to…

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Oct 28, 2013 3 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP

OWASP Top 10 - A2 Broken Authentication and Session Management

Description The attacker steals his victim’s credentials or any information that will help him…

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Oct 21, 2013 10 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP

OWASP Top 10 - A1 Injection

Description The attacker sends untrusted data that will be injected in the targeted application to…

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Oct 11, 2013 5 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP

OWASP Top 10 - Introduction

When starting a new web application, the security risks are sadly often underestimated by everyone…

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Oct 10, 2013 2 min read

Philippe Cery

OWASP